Stirling Autumn Garden Festival Market

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May 24, 2013Comment Closed

I’m sure I have mentioned that at this time of the year I love going up to the hills, Hahndorf is my favourite in autumn as the leaves turn red-brown and the breeze is cool but not too cold with rays of sunlight still peeking through. I was up at Stirling the other day and came to a road block. It was then that I found out the Autumn Garden Festival Markets were on, this wasn’t the usual Stirling Markets. I had to go have a look!

The Stirling Autumn Garden Festival celebrates seasonal gardening and sustainable living with entertainment, activities, healthy and organic eating, local produce, food and wine and gardening equipment. On this particular Sunday there were wine stalls set up for tasting and purchase, live entertainment and family friendly activities. Local traders also took the opportunity to set up food and craft stalls.

Beautiful flowers and native plants at affordable prices were on display.

This was a community activity really to weave leaves, there was a basket of leaves and anyone could pick one up and weave it where ever they wanted to. I thought it was kinda cool. Small things!

The kids took part in a music performance using very different style instruments.

Locavore had their specialty Wagyu Burger on offer. I’ve had their house made Wagyu burger at the restaurant before. Locavore means eat local and they strive to use ingredients from within a 100km radius. Using local and quality ingredients, they make some pretty darn good food! I’ve previously done a review on Locavore.

Jimmies is another great place I’ve had the chance to visit before. Jimmies is famous for their incredibly delicious wood oven pizzas and I remember we had such a great time drawing on the table at the restaurant. Well, it wasn’t the table itself we were drawing on, at Jimmies their tables are covered with drawing paper and you get your cup of crayons so doodle away while you wait for your pizza.

This is only the second time ever I’ve come across these guys. The first time I bought two venison pies. This time, bought venison pies again. Bull Creek Bakery make awesome venison pies! You’ll just have to take my word for it. They have a great range of traditional favourites and delicious creations but it really is awesome.

I had a seafood paella from Stirling Hotel which was really fresh and delicious. Fresh prawns, mussels, clams and squid – I absolutely love paella. It was pretty cool watching them make it in the big paella pan. I got bits of crispy chewy rice too!

Big game of chess anyone? Really, you can have ten a side.

Earthy goodies! I love the organic look.

I also came across Provi to You Dore which I thought was a very clever play on words and great name for the business. What they do is, you can order a weekly box of food and have it delivered to your door. You could just get organic fruit and veg or the full shebang of a meal plan with all the required ingredients delivered right to your doorstep. Don’t even need to think to eat healthy! Could not be easier. They were giving out samples of Lamb Kofta with Lentil Dahl as an example of things they have on the menu. It was pretty tasty.

It’s ironic that I am writing this now, in the last days of autumn. Winter will be here soon and I’m sure I’ll be hunting out restaurants with fire places. Until next autumn, I wanted to share this cute set up by one of the coffee and cake stalls at the market. Goodbye autumn! See you Mr. Scarecrow.